- Taschenbuch: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Grand Central Publishing; Auflage: Reprint (1. April 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0446605387
- ISBN-13: 978-0446605380
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17 x 10,4 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 725.286 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Fans of McBain's 87th Precinct series will find this forty-eighth installment as taut and intricate as its predecessors. But there are also some surprises: this time around, McBain displays a rather impish sense of whimsy. Investigating the murder of a once-famous concert pianist, Detectives Carella and Hawes encounter an odd clue that puts them in mind of a certain Alfred Hitchcock movie. Those readers who know McBain's film credits will enjoy the running in-joke (no one can remember who wrote the movie); others may be confused. On the other hand, another case involves the brutal murder of a prostitute, and McBain describes her last moments in graphic sexual language that may shock some readers. The 87th Precinct novels have never been pretty, but this one is more explicit than most. As always, the appeal of the novel is in its small details, and in the way McBain constructs a mystery that is at once baffling and entirely rational. An excellent (though, in some ways, quite different) addition to the series. David Pitt
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Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes have pulled the night shift, so they're on call when long-retired concert pianist Svetlana Dyalovich gets drilled twice inside her apartment door. An interrupted burglary? Then why did the burglar also shoot her cat--and how did he know that Mme. Dyalovich had just drawn her life's savings from her bank earlier that day? While the boys of the 87th precinct are puzzling over these questions--and the pianist's granddaughter, lounge singer Priscilla Stetson, is trying to track down the legacy her grandmother promised her- -their neighbors over at the 88th have their own case: a horribly mutilated hooker, her slashed pimp, and a drowned crack dealer, all killed after a wild debauch by three cherubic prep-school kids. Longtime fans of this venerable series (Romance, 1995, etc.), knowing better than to assume the cases will be connected- -they crisscross at several places but never exactly shake hands- -will feel luxuriously at home in fictional Isola, where taxi drivers fall prey to the temptations of the flesh, voodoo priestesses stand on their civil rights, cockfighters invoke the example of the Founding Fathers, and leaving your car at a gas station to be serviced is a bigger mistake than you can imagine. McBain seems to be saving his tightest plotting these days for his Matthew Hope series. But if shaggy storytelling doesn't bother you (here the whole 87th gets upstaged by the 88th), his 47th tour of Isola is as exuberant as his best. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Nocturne was one of the 87th Precinct novels I looked forward to most because I was hoping it will continue the stories started in Romance. I devour every Ed McBain/Evan Hunter book and I still have to find one that I did not love. Nocturne is still great, but not what I expected. Maybe that is why it left me a bit disappointed and betrayed. Nevertheless, it is another stellar addition to my library and I would not give it up for the world. Go, 87th Precinct, go!
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When I started reading, I found it hard to close it. This is the book that got me bitten by the reading bug!
McBain has delivered a virtual roller-coaster of thrills, twists, characters, events... the whole works.
Equally commendable is the author's decision to resist the temptation to attempt to tie together all the story lines in the book, and believe me, there are a few! Because of this, the cases described are that much more credible.
My only gripe is the author's inclination toward morbidity and gore in some parts of the story. But I guess that is part of life in the precinct!
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Mcbain gets better with every book,if thats possible.I enjoyed Nocture mostly for its fast pace,great suspense and of course those lovable cops.I have read every Mcbain I have been able to get my hands on and have yet to be disappointed!
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A GREAT BOOK IN A SERIES OF GREAT BOOKS!!!!!!
I have read about fifteen 87th precint novels. There all great. Ed mcbain is probably the most underated novelist today. He should really get more credit. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
Brilliant
Ed McBain is an underrated writer and a grandmaster of the police procedural genre. Two murders are investigated and near the end of the book the trail of both lead to the same... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. April 1998 von Edward Onny
An incredible piece of work.
I read this a few weeks after it came out-it was my first McBain book, and it got me hooked on the rest. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. März 1998 veröffentlicht
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